Not working VS350

[srfishin15]

My Marcum VS350 underwater camera is no longer working. It worked perfect for about 5 minutes on sunday and then the screen went grey. Changed batteries and nothing, same screen. Pulled it up and there was no water in the camera. If I tapped the camera or held it in certain ways the picture would come back for awhile and in some spots it even stayed on. But if it hung by the cord or was tilted to the right at all the camera the grey screen would appear starting at the bottom and in a time of about 5 seconds or so the entire screen would be gone again. Both cabelas and Marcum said they could do nothing because they no longer produced that model. I believe it's a short somewhere up where the cord connects to the camera. The only solution I can think of other than buying a new camera which I really don't want to do is to go in and try to find the short. So, I have two questions, First is has anybody ever had this problem? and second is what is the best way to locate the short then fix/seal the camera back up?

Thanks for reading.

[Brad B]

I have a VS250 and have never had a issue. what was the differnce between the VS350 and VS250. If they used the same camera on them I would let you try my camera on your unit. I am in monticello and to drive to sauk rapids is not that far for me if you wanted to try my camera. PM me if you want to set something up.

[srfishin15]

Thanks for the offer, I don't believe that'd be necessary though. And I'm not sure what the difference is. Anyways I'm 99% sure that a different camera would work if it fit the monitor but the problem with that is a new camera costs $150. I'd rather attempt to fix this one before spending that money. What I need is to figure out how to find the short and reaseal the camera, We had done this with and older atlantis camera and but never were able to reaseal it properly. That's mostly what I was looking for advice on. Thanks again though.

[Love2Cabin]

Check your voltage. Mine was doing the same thing and I thought it was the camera going bad. I put a new camera on and it was fine for about 30 minutes and then same problem. Well I brought it home and the voltage was down to about 10.5. I put in back on the charger and noticed that the green light was on after about 15 minutes, checked the voltage and it was at 13.5. Well there is no way it could have charged that fast. I then hooked up my car charger thinking maybe the charger had gone bad and it said it was fully charged as well. So I turn on the camera and after about 15 minutes of use it starts acting up again. The voltage is down to 10.5 again. Nothing a new battery won't take of.

[srfishin15]

I'll go get a volt meter and check it, but when the problem happened I tried the working marcum lx-2 battery, a spare battery we brought along, and the big 12 volt powering the house and all had the same result. A gray screen.

[harvey lee]

It might be worth a call to Jon Marshall at MarCum.

Jon has been with MarCum for years and is very good.

He may be able or willing to tell you how to reseal the camera.